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The original was posted on /r/tifu by /u/EscapeTraining1517 on 2026-06-25 03:54:28+00:00.

I carpool with a coworker sometimes because parking near our office is stupid expensive and I was trying to save money instead of paying garage prices every week.

Recently she told me, very nicely, that I sometimes cut people off in meetings when I get excited (Which means I cut her off cause she leads 99% of our meetings). Not in a mean way. More like “you had a good point but let people finish first.” Annoyingly, she was right.

So I made a reminder on my phone that goes off about 5 minutes before I usually get to the office.

It said:

“Let Priya finish talking before you jump in like a golden retriever.”

In my head this was private. Just a dumb little self roast to make me behave like an adult in standup.

Anyway, we are in the car together, my phone is connected to CarPlay.

Then Siri goes:

“Reminder. Let Priya finish talking before you jump in like a golden retriever.”

Priya just turned and looked at me.

For some reason my first instinct was to say “that’s not about you.”

Which is possibly the worst answer, since it literally had her name in it.

Then I made it worse and said “I mean it is about you, but not in a you way.”

She laughed, but in the way where you know someone has just been handed free material forever.

Later in standup, after she finished talking, she looked over and said “golden retriever, your turn.”

So now I have successfully stopped interrupting people, but only because I have been publicly domesticated by my own phone.

TLDR: Made a reminder to stop interrupting my coworker, forgot CarPlay reads reminders out loud, and now my office nickname is golden retriever.